THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FRO \I “STANDARD.” MARCH 15, 1905. The Post and Telegraph Department was connecting the Utuwai and Umutoi districts with the Pohangina telephone exchange. There had been a suggestion that they should be connected with the Feilding exchange. Several deputations had waited on the Minister of Mines at Dunedin with regard to the “leakages” of gold from dredges. The speakers urged Ihe licensing of gold buyers. Owing to numerous anarchists the Czar was-.remaining within the precincts of his Tsarskoe Selo palace, said a London message. lie was like a prisoner. In a match with a New Zealand side at Christchurch the touring Australian cricket team ran up 555 in their first innings. Armstrong contributed 126 not out, 'Trumper 84, and Hill 118. The two New Zealand innings produced 102 and 112. The Minister of Railways had announced that as from June the seats on the main trains would all be numbered and t,he carriages numbered also, those numbers being shown on any reserved seat tickets.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 91, 15 March 1935, Page 2
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168THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 91, 15 March 1935, Page 2
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